Still learning morse and seem to be OK up to about c8wpm if it is plain text but this falls rapidly to c5wpm when you mix in abbreviations, punctuation, callsigns etc.... and after weeks of patient OP work in the club improvement is slow....I am looking for a resource with lots of text QSO exchanges for practice. I cannot find any ...

These I would use with CWTYPE or similar.... also contest type exchanges.

Plain text is OK but recognition of callsigns (especially /M /P etc..) abbreviations and the sorts of inclusions in exchanges that occur in normal QSO's seem to be slowing me down a great deal.

I'm in the same boat. For now I'm still struggling to translate a heard QSO at 5 wpm, which I don't do very well although I can look at a text and translate it INTO morse pretty easily. Some folks are more visual, some are more aural. I'm more visual, I guess.

Since you're aiming to get your speed above about 8 wpm, I'm guessing you've already passed the 5 wpm licensing exam. If that's the case, I'd suggest NOT sticking to texts of QSOs, real or made up, because they'll be full of often-heard ham and CW lingo and abbreviations that will make them easier for you. You might be better off using texts that aren't ham-specific. You'll work harder and develop more facility when the text isn't loaded with words you can recognize easily by now: QTH, rig, antenna, RST, watts, etc.

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